"?" It is not only the writing symbol of RMB, but also represents the monetary system of RMB and the unit "yuan" of RMB. It is also a symbol of Japanese currency. The appearance of symbols dates back to the Republic of China.

The unit of RMB is Yuan (Yuan Yuan, abbreviated as "RMB" with "?") Code name). The unit of RMB tokens is cents.

RMB has no legal gold content, and it performs functions such as value scale, circulation means and payment means.

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The origin of "yuan"

1 948 65438+February1The People's Bank of China was established and issued the first set of RMB in New China. However, in the early days of liberation, people used to use "$" as a symbol of the seal.

Because the unit of RMB is Yuan and the Chinese phonetic alphabet of Yuan is Yuan, the symbol of RMB adopts the first letter Y of Yuan's Chinese phonetic alphabet. In order to distinguish "Y" from Arabic numerals, two lines are added to the word "Y" and written as "?" The pronunciation is still "yuan". From then on, people began to use "?" The symbol represents RMB, which is used as the symbol of the head when writing the digital amount, such as RMB 100. 100 "or" RMB? 100"。

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